New ‘Lucifer’ bee with devil-like horns found in Australia

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c051yjv90dmo

44 comments
  1. The fuck? No! Put that thing back it came from, Or so help me!

  2. Of course it’s from Australia.

    Seems like everything there is tiny and deadly.

  3. phew! I think this is a case of it having a bad ass name but not really much to worry about. Tis no murder hornet or the like

  4. If someone asked me where a devil bee was discovered, Australia would probably be my first guess.

  5. Oh look another Aussie nightmare. You Aussies have anything that’s not top 10 deadly or straight nightmare fuel???

  6. Beelzebub: “Identity theft is not a joke, Lucy! Millions of families suffer every year!”

  7. The “in Australia” part probably means it’s highly venomous, has acid for blood, and injects its young into humans whereupon they burst out of the chest cavity when mature.

    True or not it’ll help keep people away.

  8. It’s the goth-est bee I’ve ever seen and I love it.

  9. That just looks like a normal bee other than the horns. Apparently no one here has seen the “King Wasp” from Indonesia those pincers are nightmare fuel.

  10. Who comes up with these stupid names for these wonders of nature?!!

  11. The other irony here being that ‘Lucifer’ was never intended as a name for Satan and happened due to translation errors.

    Plus, I mean, Bee-zebub was right there.

  12. > Lucifer – which means “light bringer” in Latin – is also a reference to shining light on the need for better conservation of native bee species and greater understanding of how endangered plants are pollinated, she said.

    Okay buddy

  13. Devil-like: panic

    Australia: calm

    They had us in the first half

  14. Why is it always Australia? Australia is a monument to man’s ignorance. A big ol’ desert island covered in creatures with the will & ability to kill you, cute things and cute deadly things with herpes. (Did that happen the way I think it did?) Yet some people thousands of years ago were like “Yes, this is now home.” The British come and say the same thing. Ain’t no way I’m showing up to 1800s or earlier Australia and thinking anything of the sort. 

  15. Australia, the land where animals randomly have horns or pouches, or just generally look like they were stitched together or experimented on by some mad scientists

  16. When it comes to dangerous animals the answer is always in Australia

  17. Megachile Lucifer, ok metal bands ball is in your court.

  18. Of course it is Australia, why wouldn’t it be Australia?

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